Find the 3rd maximum salary

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SQL-Server-2008R2

Dear Sir/Madam....
I want to get third maximum salary....
For that the given below query is working...
If we have more than one same salary(45000) means it will display last inserted value only.... I need to display all the 3rd maximum salary

SQL

CREATE TABLE Employee([Eid] [int] NULL,[Ename] [nvarchar](255) NULL,[Basic_Sal] [float] NULL)

insert into Employee values(1,'Neeraj',45000)
insert into Employee values(2,'Ankit',5000)
insert into Employee values(3,'Akshay',6000)
insert into Employee values(4,'Ramesh',7600)
insert into Employee values(5,'Vikas',4000)
insert into Employee values(7,'Neha',8500)
insert into Employee values(8,'Shivika',4500)
insert into Employee values(9,'Tarun',9500)
insert into Employee values(10,'meera',45000)
insert into Employee values(11,'kajal',45000)
insert into Employee values(12,'hansika',45000)

select Ename,Basic_sal
from(select Ename,Basic_Sal,ROW_NUMBER() over (order by Basic_Sal desc) as rowid from Employee)A
where rowid=3

Thanks in Advance

Posted 22-Apr-14 19:35pm

M.Thiyagaraja

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Bh@gyesh · Accepted Answer · 2014-04-22T20:05:00

Solution 1

Hi,

Use following query :

SQL

select Ename,Basic_sal, [rank]
from(select Ename,Basic_Sal,DENSE_RANK() over (order by Basic_Sal desc) as [rank] from Employee)A
where [rank]=3

Thanks,
Bhagyesh

Posted 22-Apr-14 20:05pm

Bh@gyesh

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M.Thiyagaraja 23-Apr-14 2:10am

thank you so much sir/madam.....It's working fine....